Buga-what?

Bougainvillea.- Having first learned the name in Spanish, this official spelling was more complicated than I anticpated. Click on the word, and you can learn from Wickipedia that the name comes from an admiral in the French Navy who first came across it in Brazil. (Wickipedia uses the word "discovered", but that's too Euro-centric for me. Others had known about it long before then.) This image is an intent to capture the flower within the flower.

The more common perspective below is more recognizable.

These pictures were taken at the Equatorial Hotel in Penang, Malaysia near the end of March, 2008.